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[January 30, 2014]

Zayo Group Expands UK Network with New Fibre Build to Basildon

LONDON --(Business Wire)--

Zayo Group, LLC ("Zayo"), an international provider of Bandwidth (News - Alert)
Infrastructure services, today announced a UK network expansion that
enhances service offerings to customers east of London. The new 53-mile
fibre network, which stretches as far as Basildon in Essex, doubles the
reach of Zayo's network in London.

Zayo's existing London footprint and new expanded network to Basildon and Stratford region. (Photo: Business Wire)

This is Zayo's second major investment in the UK since November, when
the company announced a network expansion in the London and Slough areas
that will provide dark fibre backhaul to connect 21 BT (News - Alert) phone and
Ethernet exchange points.

Zayo already provides extensive connections in the greater London area,
connecting to more than 500 buildings in the region. The new fibre
network equips Zayo with its own direct routes between these key
locations and strategic points to the east: Stratford, a former Olympics
site, with its content and media industry development; Basildonand
Romford, where key trading venues are located; and Thurrock, with its
mix of data centres and distribution hubs. Zayo has had a limited
presence in the Basildon and Romford areas for several years; this
expansion creates a deeper fibre footprint in the network east of London
and makes Zayo's full set of lit services available to the high-demand
areas of Thurrock and Stratford.

"The UK is a critical market for Zayo and we are committed to investing
in bandwidth-intensive regions like Basildon," says Glenn Russo,
executive vice president of corporate strategy and development at Zayo.
"The success of Zayo's European business enables us to expand our reach
in response to growing bandwidth demands from our US and European
customers."

Zayo's extended network will be fully operational in the second quarter
of 2014. For more information about Zayo's European Network, visit www.zayo.com/europe.

About Zayo

Based in Boulder, Colo., privately owned Zayo Group (News - Alert) (www.zayo.com)
is an international provider of fibre-based Bandwidth Infrastructure
services and carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection services.
Zayo serves wireline and wireless carriers, data centres, Internet
content and services companies, high bandwidth enterprises, and federal,
state and local government agencies. Zayo provides these services over
metro, national, international and fibre-to-the-tower networks. With its
acquisitions of USCarrier, FiberGate and AboveNet, Zayo's network
includes 75,954 route miles, spanning 45 states in the US as well as
major cities in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
Its network serves approximately 14,001 on-net buildings, including 602
data centres, 586 carrier PoPs, and 3,469 cell towers. Zayo's colocation
assets include 175,036 billable square feet of interconnect-focused
colocation space.

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